Oil Exports Halted...

[Target Practice]

Linky

I hope you all like riding you're bikes.... Hmmm, this could really suck.

[Hasty8]

Iraq only accounts for 8% of our oil imports. The other oil producing nations could easily raise their oil output by 1 or 2% and easily cover this. We only import approximately 54-55% of our total need so we could possibly cover this shortage as well.

[Brak]

Iraq only accounts for 8% of our oil imports. The other oil producing nations could easily raise their oil output by 1 or 2% and easily cover this. We only import approximately 54-55% of our total need so we could possibly cover this shortage as well.

SCHOOLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hasty8]

SCHOOLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

huh?

[vf-xx]

Iraq only accounts for 8% of our oil imports. The other oil producing nations could easily raise their oil output by 1 or 2% and easily cover this. We only import approximately 54-55% of our total need so we could possibly cover this shortage as well.

That much? I thought we were getting very little imported, but my information may be flawed.

edit: IIRC we only NEED to import 10%, but we import more because it's cheaper than our oil.

[PyRo]

Why do they go blowing up the pipelines and such? Don't they realize Sadam isn't comming back nomatter what they do, and all that they are doing is costing there country money, and creating more problems making more of US presence necessary, forcing us to increase secuitry and making it harder to hand over the government. We are trying to give those morons what they want and they seem to think that if they don't make it a PITA for us to do that they won't get it? Stupid stupid people.

[Hasty8]

Why do they go blowing up the pipelines and such? Don't they realize Sadam isn't comming back nomatter what they do, and all that they are doing is costing there country money, and creating more problems making more of US presence necessary, forcing us to increase secuitry and making it harder to hand over the government. We are trying to give those morons what they want and they seem to think that if they don't make it a PITA for us to do that they won't get it? Stupid stupid people.

You hit it right on the head there. These are stupid people. Literally. Most barely have the ability to read or write.

And without sounding stupid myself:
PITA?

[CodeMA]

ya, but I thought most of our oil from the US went into reserves?

anyway... PITA=Pain In The Arse

This is just that, higher gas prices suck, Im going to have to start selling unneeded organs on Ebay or something, mabey anything I have an extra of too...

[Target Practice]

Iraq only accounts for 8% of our oil imports. The other oil producing nations could easily raise their oil output by 1 or 2% and easily cover this. We only import approximately 54-55% of our total need so we could possibly cover this shortage as well.

But would the other oil producing nations do that? I mean, I know that Iraq isn't the majority for our imports, but we may still feel it. Besides, I think the worse effects of this is going to be felt by Iraq itself. To me, they are the ones who will suffer most, ina many areas.

[Hasty8]

But would the other oil producing nations do that? I mean, I know that Iraq isn't the majority for our imports, but we may still feel it. Besides, I think the worse effects of this is going to be felt by Iraq itself. To me, they are the ones who will suffer most, ina many areas.

I think that between Russia, Mexico and one or two other countries we could cover this quite easily.

Personally I herald the day that we finally break the yoke of oil dependency. Then we can tell the ME to go themsleves till they are happy.

[Albinonewt]

Why do they go blowing up the pipelines and such? Don't they realize Sadam isn't comming back nomatter what they do, and all that they are doing is costing there country money, and creating more problems making more of US presence necessary, forcing us to increase secuitry and making it harder to hand over the government. We are trying to give those morons what they want and they seem to think that if they don't make it a PITA for us to do that they won't get it? Stupid stupid people.

They don't care about bring Saddam back, they want to destroy the fledging democracy before it takes hold. A democracy in the Middle East is the last thing the terrorists want, because it will severely impact them. Freedom is contagious, and once the middle east is introduced to it they will not be strapping bombs onto themselves and fighting the west, they'll become the west. The terrorists fear this and are trying to stop it.

And it's not going to work. The thing they miss is you don't get Iraqis on your side and bankrupting them and killing them. This is where their plan has some serious flaws.

[Albinonewt]

ya, but I thought most of our oil from the US went into reserves?

Very little of it actually. It's only like 50,000 barrels a day or something, compared against more then 10,000,000 barrels a day consumed world wide. it's pretty miniscule.

[1stdeadeye]

They don't care about bring Saddam back, they want to destroy the fledging democracy before it takes hold. A democracy in the Middle East is the last thing the terrorists want, because it will severely impact them. Freedom is contagious, and once the middle east is introduced to it they will not be strapping bombs onto themselves and fighting the west, they'll become the west. The terrorists fear this and are trying to stop it.

And it's not going to work. The thing they miss is you don't get Iraqis on your side and bankrupting them and killing them. This is where their plan has some serious flaws.

Well said Newt!!!

[RenagadeOfFunk]

...We (United States) get around 5% of our oil from Iraq...so no biggy...

[davidb]

Why do they go blowing up the pipelines and such? Don't they realize Sadam isn't comming back nomatter what they do, and all that they are doing is costing there country money, and creating more problems making more of US presence necessary, forcing us to increase secuitry and making it harder to hand over the government. We are trying to give those morons what they want and they seem to think that if they don't make it a PITA for us to do that they won't get it? Stupid stupid people.

Does that answer your question? Fighting Americans is a goal in and of itself. Iraq is the new Mecca for terrorists, one no longer needs funding and documentation to go and kill American infidels, one needs a like-minded psycho buddy with a pick-up truck. The harder they make it for us to leave, the longer they have the convenience of having American's within easy reach. Remember in Hot Shots where Lloyd Bridges (the President) suggests that instead of wasting all kinds of resources going to the Middle East to go to war, we just have them come over here? (Do I have to think of everything?!) That is, IMO, what has been accomplished from the terrorists' perspective.

That said, I was, and am, in favor of the war in Iraq. It always gets me when people talk about how the Iraqi people "obviously" don't want us there because of all the terrorist activity that goes on there. What makes you think that all (or most) of those attacks are perpetrated by Iraqis? The place is in easy reach of all the world's most abundant sources of Islamic militants.. Are they just sitting around letting the Iraqis deal with their own problem in their own way?
BTW- Pyro none of that last part was directed at you, or anyone in particular for that matter.